Ecophysiology

The ecophysiology (English: physiological ecology, environmental physiology) deals with aspects of physiology, which are in direct relationship with the environment of the species concerned. Related topics, but focused even more ecologically in the question of the Physiological Ecology and the autecology deal, but go the contents of these research areas often overlap.

Topics ecophysiology

The Ecophysiology examines characteristics of animals and plants, which interact with the environment and often seen as adaptations to their respective habitats are: For example, the adaptation of metallophytes to high heavy metal concentrations in soil, a thick fur in arctic mammals or of echolocation in bats and river dolphins. Also peculiarities and adaptations of the energy balance of animals ( for example, expenses for the warm-blooded in cool climates ) are considered as research content ecophysiology.

In microbiology, ecophysiology is largely equated with the research content of the physiology of microorganisms. Due to the fast and intense selection effects in microorganisms it is also slightly higher than in topics of genetics. Some orientations of the applied microbiological physiology and ecophysiology specifically examine the adaptation to environmental stresses ( for example, on organic matter in the water or soil, to high salinity or anoxic conditions ).

Botanically aligned Ökophysiologen

As the founder of botany aligned Ecophysiology applies under other Ernst Stahl. In the first half of the 20th century Otto Stocker, Bruno Huber and Heinrich Walter have made ​​significant contributions to this field of knowledge. Among the later Ökophysiologen botanical orientation are in German-speaking Walter Larcher ( born 1929, University of Innsbruck ), Ernst -Detlef Schulze ( * 1941, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany ), Christian Körner (born 1949, University of Basel ) and Donat- Peter Häder ( Friedrich- Alexander -University Erlangen- Nuremberg, Germany) to name an example.

Zoological aligned Ökophysiologen

Well-known and influential Ökophysiologen zoological orientation were George A. Bartholomew (1919-2006) as well as Knut Schmidt- Nielsen ( 1915-2007 ). In the area of ​​energy and autökologisch aligned Ecophysiology worked in the German-speaking later (at least in parts of its working directions ) Wolfgang Wieser ( * 1924, University of Innsbruck ), Winfried Lampert ( * 1941, Max Planck Institute for Limnology in Plön ), Bruno Streit ( * 1948, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main ) and many more. In addition, you can numerous representatives of the neuro, sensory and behavioral physiology called zoological Ökophysiologen, for example, Gerhard Neuweiler (1935-2008, Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich) and several others.

Exemplary Literature

  • Donald Sidney Bradshaw: Vertebrate ecophysiology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2003.
  • Peter Calow: Evolutionary Physiological Ecology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. In 1987.
  • Walter Larcher: Physiological Plant Ecology. Springer, 4th edition, 2001.
  • B.K. McNab: The Physiological Ecology of Vertebrates: A view from energetics. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London, 2002
  • Ecological discipline
  • Physiology
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